How to format your references using the Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Download the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

Chicurel M: Putting a name on it. Nature 419: 755, 757, 2002.

A journal article with 2 authors

Goff SA and Klee HJ: Plant volatile compounds: sensory cues for health and nutritional value? Science 311: 815–819, 2006.

A journal article with 3 authors

Furuya T, Kamlet AS and Ritter T: Catalysis for fluorination and trifluoromethylation. Nature 473: 470–477, 2011.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Gao C, Lin Q, Zhang S, He J, Lu X and Wang G: Historical trends of atmospheric black carbon on Sanjiang Plain as reconstructed from a 150-year peat record. Sci Rep 4: 5723, 2014.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

Keiser G: FTTX Concepts and Applications. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2006.

An edited book

Spence R, So E and Scawthorn C: Human Casualties in Earthquakes: Progress in Modelling and Mitigation. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

Esler M: Sympathetic Neural and Adrenal Medullary Mechanisms in Depression and Panic Disorder. In: Stress and Cardiovascular Disease. Hjemdahl P, Steptoe A and Rosengren A (eds.) Springer, London, pp55–69, 2012.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine.

Blog post

Andrew E: How Flossing Gave This Woman A Knee Infection. IFLScience, 2015.

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

Government Accountability Office: Aviation Safety: Comparison of Specific Responses in FAA Controller Questionnaire. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1989.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Moretto L: Exploring the Nature of the Relationship Between Decision-Driven Scenarios and Decision Confidence in High-Velocity Environments., 2012.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

Barron J: Peter Allen Dies at 96; Longtime Host of Met Opera’s Radio Broadcasts. New York Times: B12, 2016.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (1).
This sentence cites two references (1,2).
This sentence cites four references (1–4).

About the journal

Full journal title	Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine
Abbreviation	Exp. Ther. Med.
ISSN (print)	1792-0981
ISSN (online)	1792-1015
Scope	Cancer Research Immunology and Microbiology (miscellaneous) General Medicine